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01/18/1963
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ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO

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CORRELATION SUMMARY
Main File No: 105-82298 Date: January 18, 1963
Subject: Eloy GutierrezNenoyo eo ~ Date Searched: 10/26/62
Kiko Pernas*- ALS: DSPORMAT LON CONTATNED

Va One Gutierrezs* : ASSL FIED
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All logical variations of subject's name and aliases” were searched and
identical references found as:

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4ALazaro Cristobal. Florian “Nartinez”

; MLazaro Cristobal lorian Martinez “Mendezv’¢ Sloy iterrez-Nenoyo”

Stoy Seite DRT OOK

i pazare Martinez“Mendez> —__ Eloy-M onoya* oa
azaro Q. Marti Mendez” ' “Eloy Gutierrez’ NS oya”
i 4Sly Gutierrez. Bauiovs | Bey Gutierrez- sghoya”
' JSloy Gutierkes oy * Eloy Gutierrez, Ss
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Classified by,

Also searched as.One Gallego, see page 29 of summary. - Beclassity =: -

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THIS SUMMARY HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR Use AT THE SEAT OF

GOVERNMENT AG 32 2 Vb ¥
Analyst — . o™ coordinatorkeen 27 Approved
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James F. Kline... or Mary H. Elgin, we KE - Norman F. Stultz

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sGutierrez was alleged to have used the nickname Kiko Pernas. Seg: >
serials 2 and 95 of main file (105-82298). See also 105-98002-1..

wet Not Abvarched, see page 56 of search slip.

a 4 Ne COR RY searched, see page. 56 of ‘Search slip.
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: ebantoattion rather than through file on GUTIERREZ “‘MENOYO | as.
an individual, Accordingly, Miami file 105-2102 (Bufile

. thé LI-Front or GUTIERREZ MENOYO will be handled in 105-5948.
- Por this reason a report was prepared at this time instead of
. = . the Letterhead memorandum as requested | in referenced Bureau
— letter.

: - INFORMANTS =.

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Hector Peter Ordetx, 1802 Lamar St, Tampa, Fla., furnished
on 1/26/62, a quantity of miscellaneous papers, some of which bore the
name of Roberto De Los Rios (100-431672) and appeared to be’
correspondence between him and members of his family in Cuba. One of.
these papers was a carbon copy of a typewritten letter in Spanish to
"Dear Father",dated 4/7/59, at Tampa, with no signature. The writer
said that Nelson had written him asking for declarations of the
committee in regard to Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo | and. his insidious
declarations. No further information.

1004 43672427 p.16 17
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Correlator's Note: It was noted that Roberto De. Los Rios had a brother
named Nelson. ,

‘ Rolando Arcadio Masferrer Ro jas. (100-344127) advised on
4/29/59, that he had heard that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo and William Morgan, |
former leaders in Sierra del Escambray, Second Front, were dissatisfied
with the situation: in Cuba. °

100#344127-18 p.19

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CIA Information Report, dated 5/19/59, revealed that ;
Temistocles Fuentes Rivera (105- 62455) stated that when Ernesto "Che".
Guevara arrived in Las Villas Province, Cuba, during the revolution,
he was in the zone of the Segundo Frente Nacional del Escambray which
was headed by Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo. Gutierrez and an armed troop met
Guevara with drawn guns, accused him of being a communist and demanded
that he and his men leave their area of operations .( a)

05462455-10 p. 1
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MM- 635-S, employed by the Cuban Air Force, - -advised that
on 5/20/59, Major Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Major Pernas, and Major
Armando Fleitas, all leaders of the Second Front of the Escambray,
came to consult with Major Marcos Diaz Lanz, chief of the Revolutionary
Air Force in Cuba. Gutierrez told Marcos Diaz that they had 400 men
who were unemployed and whom they would like to _put to workin order to ;

keep them out of trouble. K) “Ww
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On 3/18/59, Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo,at a press conference, stated

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that his. organization* supported the Castro Government "as long as it -

lives up to the principles for which we fought", and that if it should —
déviate "we will take whatever steps circumstances dictate". He further
stated that his group was 100% anti-communist.

’ On 4/20/59, Gutierrez left Havana to visit Miami at the
invitation of Miami's Mayor, (source not clear).

Paul Bethel, Press Officer, U.S. Embassy, Havana, Cuba
(protect identity), advised that Tony Beacon was appointed Gutierrez's
press secretary on the above mentioned trip and Beacon was paid by Nick

-Bartone, an American who was attempting to sell C-74's (Globemaster I)

to Cuba.

"The Havana Post ",dated 5/27/59, carried an article to the
effect that the Second National Front of the Escambray (105-78831) had
issued a statement which endorsed the Agrarian Reform Program of the
Cuban Government. The statement was signed by Gutierrez, National

Chief, and Armando Fleitas, Secretary General of the organization.

(protect identity) .-¥ )(u)

~ Add. info. according to PSI Hugo Gonzalez La jonchere

105£78831-1 p.1,2 . 4
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A, poreign Service Dispatch from the Department of State,
dated 5/28/59, revealed that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo had told the Embassy
in Cuba that the Segundo Frente Nacional del Escambray (105-78831) was
strongly anti-communist and would take action if necessary should the
Governmen’ Come under communist control or domination. : ur)

State also advised that:a source, who had spent a month with
the Segundo Frente under the command of Gutierrez, advised that the group
was non-political and definitely not communist. Gutierrez felt that .
Fidel Castro had a number of communists among his advisors and he believed |
one of these was "Che" Guevara. Guevara had been joined by some of the
members of the Segundo Frente, with Gutierrez's approval, but Guevara's ;
followers had not been allowed to take arms with the Segundo Frentey u)

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Francisco Rodriguez Couceiro, 6424 S.W. 38th St., Miami, Fla.,
advised that the Crusade of Revolutionaries Against. Communism (CRAC) had
planned an invasion.: of the Isle of Pines, Cuba. In June, 1959, Eloy !
Gutierrez Menoyo and William Alexander Morgan, Commanders in ‘the Cuban
Army, were in contact with the Movimento Revolucionario Democrata in
Havana, and this was known to the CRAC in Miami. Rodriguez had advised
the group in Cuba and the anti-Castro movement in the Dominican Republic,
not to trust éither Morgan or Gutierrez because he considered them both
to be loyal to Castro, and their cooperation with the group was for the
purpose of entrapment. vo \

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Add. info. according to Rodriguez.

105~81802-7 p.20
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A teletype from San Juan, dated 6/5/59, concerning
Nicaraguan revolutionary activities, set out the following: "Second
Front Escambray Forces under Commandant Ely Gutierrez Menjoya
requested immediate dissolution from Government, Message conjectures
that this may mean a breakaway from policies of July 26 and could mean

participation in other revolutions." Not further clarified. @YUL

fis5 2-202-S04 H(W) ;

ee ls dv¥sed on 6/26/59, that Paul Hughes, an
American priot, flew for Commander Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo during the
Cuban Revolution. Hughes was suspected of taking guns that were
stored at Miami International Airport and which belonged to the
Cuban Government... Hughes had come to Miami from Cuba on a tiission
for Gutierrez. “R) a . :

On 7/2/59, Sergio Diaz Brull, former advisor to the former
Chief of the Cuban Air Force, advised that Gutierrez was sympathetic
with the anti-Fidel Castro Movement and was waiting in the mountains
of Cuba with approximately 2,000 men for-instructions when to attack

the forces of the Cuban Revolutionary Government. an
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Department of the Army advised that in an interview with
Florencio Pernas Lorenzo (105-98002) on 2/14/61, Pernas advised that
from January to March, 1959, allc he did was attend social and official .
gatherings in Cuba. During this period he made a trip to Miami, Fla.
with Comandante Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo. In about July,1959, he was
requested by Gutierrez to participate in an action against Trujillo
and Batista followers who were to attack Cuba. From 12/20-23/59, Pernas
made a trip to Tampa, Fla., accompahied by Gutierrez to collect toys for
needy children of the Escanbray. (&K Yu u) 7 P's J+Q 16 pow Declnée el

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Pernas entered the U.S. with‘¢ttierrez* ant planned to eee

Miami and wait for orders of Gutierrez as to his future actions. Yu)
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Add. info. according to Fernando Prio Hernandez, 1330
Southwest 12th Aves, Miami, Francisco Prio Socarras, 2200 Southwest

2nd Ave., Miami, Antonio Prio Socarras, 1001 Southwest 22nd St., Coral
Gables, Fla., and duplicate informant.

19578002 -1l p.4-6,8-10

Cbyyy soe -2 p.2,3

S175 5-98002-9 p.3,4,6-8
AW Ada. info. \. .

“Entered U.S. January, 1961

CIA advised that a meeting composed of anti-Franco elements
and communists took place on 2/4/61, at the camp of the Spanish |
Liberation Army (Ejercito de Liberacion de Espana-ELE) on the Isle of
Pines near Havana. Abderraman Muley More and his aide, Manuel Perez,
leaders of DRIL (Iberian Revolutionary Directorate of Liberation): who
had taken charge of ELE since the departure in late January, 1961, of
Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, were threatened with expulsion fr om Cuba for

resisting communist efforts to take over ELE. Ww) OU)
109 - 87 7 £47 : |
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Miguel Antonio Sanchez Ramos, who was interviewed in Room 615, |
Roger Williams Hotel, 28 Hast 31st St., NyC (not further identified) i
(Protect identity), and who had furnished reliable information in the past,
advised on 1/27/61, that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, who fas involved in ‘
the "double cross" of the Dominican Republic's Lan 000. to overthrow

Fidel Castro in August, 1959, had a price of 00 on his head, put.
there by Trujillo of the Dominican Republic.

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on 2/23/61, Cirita Lopez Cejas, residence, Miami, Fla., and a

messenger for Manuel Ray and the underground, advised that Manuel Ray
had helped Gutierrez Menoyo and the group who came with him, to escape
from Cuba on 1/27/61. Lopez stated that she assisted in the arrange-
ments for the defection and had hidden 5 or 6 of the revolutionaries in
her home in Havana. She advised that Ray recognized that Gutierrez
pulled a considerable amount of support and following as a former leader
of the EScambray. He was considered a good campaigner and knew the
Sierra Escambray Mountains extremely well. ° a

113-74210-252 Encl.p.7 ay
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_ The 2/1/61, issue of the "Miami Herald" carried an article
entitled "Economic Crises Won't Topple Castro-Frio" in which Carlos
Prio Socarras (109-430) stated his views on Guba and Castro. Prio also
expressed concern that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, the rebel commandante who

fiad sought asylum in Miami, was still being detained by U.S. authorities: .

Guiterrez was an anti-communst, according to Prio. '
109 430-2390 Encl.p.3
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SI 194-430-2395 p.10
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CIA Information Report, dated 2/10/61, revealed that a source

who belonged to a group which assisted defectors to escape from Cuba,
had been trying to get Humberto Sori Marin (105-93839) out of Cuba.
The source visited Miami to determine whether the means of escape from
Cuba had been compromised by Gutierrez Menoyo and his companions. He ,
also wanted to determine if Sori would be interned as was Gutierrez, |
and How Gutierrez had os gail this escape route and how he was

able to highjack the boats. od W)
05-93839-
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CIA furnished on 3/6/61, a memorandum captioned "DRIL Pians
For Action In the Iberian Peninsula" , which stated that the Iberian
Revolutionary Directorate of Liberation (DRIL) planned to infiltrate a
group from Portugal into the Sierra Morena mountain range. According to
the secretary of DRIL leader Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, DRIL had a
clandestine printing shop in Madrid. Field Comment: According to a

2/14/61 report from fan official Spanish service, Gutierrez's secretaryf@)

in Havana, said that“DRIL leader Abderraman Muley More had commented
that his plan had been to charter a boat to be used for clandestine

landing in Spain or Portugal. CL)
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On 6/30/61, Ralph Huguet, former officer in the Cuban Rebel
Air Force, advised that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo and Max Edgardo Lesnick
Menendez (105-64869) resided with him at the Blue Bay Motel, Normandy
Isle, Miami Beach, Fla. Gutierrez desired to come to the Miami Office
for an interview. Huguet advised that to his knowledge, neither
Lesnick nor Gutierrez were involved in any.acitvity_or in any way
connected with the current Cuban government. | C# UW)

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MM 639-S advised that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, a recently ;

defected military commander of the Cuban. Revolutionary Army, and

closely associated with the Frente Revolucionario Democratico, a

leading anti-Castro organization, planned to attend, as an observer,

military demonstrations with maneuvers that were to be held at an

abandoned airport at Davie, Fla., on 7/1/61. These on (21683). 7h LU
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held by the Revolutionary Junta of National Liberation (2-1683).
2-16833 Encl.p.2
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MM 639-S advised on 7/2/61, that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, did
not attend the demonstration held on 7/2/61, at Davie 25)¢ CHIPS) | Fla.,

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3rd St., Miami, Fla.)
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- Miami report, dated 10/4/61, revealed that MM-639-S advised
that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo's father and brother were both known
communists in Cuba and Eloy himself fought on the side of the communists
in Spain in the 1930's. Eloy was further accused of..being responsible for
over 200 innocent people being put in jail in Cuba and. having participated

in the William Alexander-Morgan:affair ‘at’ Trinidad, Cuba, in August, 1959._

He was not well considered by Cuban nationals in Mjami, had a bad
reputation and was not. generally trusted. HY) os ;

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ban 2-1953439 p.1,3-7,11
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_ -- Roger Redondo Gonzalez, 730 W. 11th Ave., Miami, Fla., advised
on 11/13/61, that a captain Antonico (LNU), who furnished the transportation
for a group of Cuban exiles to infiltrate Cuba in August, 1961, was in _
charge of contacting the Cuban underground for.Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo. ¢# )

Rafael Huguet Del Vaile, Blue Bay Motel, 2070 Bay Drive, wiand)
Beach, Fla., advised on 11/13/61, that Antonico (LNU) was a fishing boat
captain from Cayo Guillermo, Cuba, who was a member of the revolutionary
movement of Gutierrez and who had contact with the underground section of
this movement in Cuba. C# Je

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Add. info. according to Huguet and duplicate informants. HX)

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correspontént) confacted Mario Garcia Inchaustegui (105-99238), Cuban
Ambassador to the UN. Garcia asked Matthews if there was any news of the
"invasion of. my country". Matthews replied that there was nothing new,
only "the ravings of that ““jerk' Gutierrez (probably Eloy Gutierrez
Menoyo) and Miro Cardona" (anti-Castro Cuban‘ revolutionary leaders ) . 2°)

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Gerardo Gabriel Antonio Hernandez Perez (105- 113456), residence,
Miami, Fla., advised on 8/3/62, that “he ahd niany other Cubans had a poor.
opinion of Jose Miro Cardona, — President of the Cuban Revolutionary
Council, Manuel Ray Rivero, former member of the council, and Eloy Gutierrez
Menoyo, because they Wére: once with thé Castro regime and probably would
have stayed if there had“been sufficient opportunity for them to advance
politically and firiancially.° Ray was considered the most anti-American
of any of the exiled leaders. (| | \

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on 9/12/62, Rene Dechard, 74 S.W. 12th St., Miami, Fla,
advised that Max Garcia (97-4345) had. made’ phone cails to his home at
various times in the past in attempts to locate Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo.:

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CIA Information Report, dated 9/18/62, revealed that General

-Generoso Campos Marquetti, President of the Alliance For the Liberty of

Cuba (105-114160), stated that the Alliance sought. a unification of all
elements, except those of the Castroite bloc whose "hands are stained
with blood". Campos was adamant in refusing to accept anyone of the ilk
of Gutierrez’ Menoyo (FNU). GO (u)

Headquarters Comment: his probably refers to Eloy Gutierrez

Menoyo, Commandant of the former anti-Batista Second National Front of the
Escambray, who took exile in the. U.S. in January, 1961.

105~114160-2 p.3,4
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“MM 639-8 advised that on 9/28/62, Loy Gutierrez: venoyo,

Tony Cuesta and about 4 others attended a ‘meeting in 12098). Fla., which

was considered avmeeting of Operation Alpha 66 (105-112098), Cuesta
had lived at 2753 N.W. 13th St,, Miami, and had been in contact with
Gutierrez and a number of American soldiers of fortune and mercenaries.
Gutierrez was last known to reside at'1126 S.W. 12th Ave.,; Miami, and
it was not known if he was a member of Operation Alpha 66. )
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REFERENCES NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SUMMARY

“Pe following references on One Gallego, located in files
maintained in the Special Filé Room of the Files and Communications
Division, Records Branch, were not reviewed:(% ?

REFERENCE _ SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER
64-330-237-1545 | J
64-330-239-825 (S)

” The following reference on’ One Gallego was not available
during the time this summary was being prepared: <;) .
REFERENCE. _ : SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

64-1200-1063 | 60

See the search slip filed behind file for other references

on this subject which contain the same information (SI) that is set out
in the main file. Differences in source and additional nonpertinent
information will be noted on the search slip.

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